The film screens as part of the festival’s opening night. Burt Reynolds plays a mostly retired film star of yesteryear (yeah, we can see that) who accepts a trip to Nashville to receive a lifetime achievement award from a film festival where things don’t exactly go to plan.

Director and screenwriter Karen Allen will receive the festival’s lifetime achievement award alongside the screening of her short film based on the story by Carson McCullers. Allen, a screen actor for four decades (Animal House, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Scrooged) has in recent years directed for theater. This is her film directorial debut.